“They had more time to edit it the second time. Mark didn’t mean to cause offence. But the word ‘girl’ was taken out just in case it did,” a BBC spokeswoman said, according to The Telegraph.

The public broadcasting station has gone to great lengths to avoid certain groups in the past.

Earlier this year, the BBC’s political editor, Nick Robinson, admitted that the outlet made a “terrible mistake” in its coverage of the immigration debate in the 1990s and 2000s.

Robinson said that the station’s “deep liberal bias” caused BBC chiefs to stifle the debate and avoid critics of immigration because it would “unleash some terrible side of the British public.”

In March, the BBC was accused of kowtowing to political correctness after it decided to avoid airing a discussion on the topic of homosexuality in Islam, at the request of a local mosque.

“We were going to debate that question, but today, after speaking to the mosque, they have expressed deep concerns with having this discussion here… so we’ll move on to our next question,” said the host of the debate program, which is called “Free Speech.”

And earlier this month, a 32-year veteran DJ of the BBC, David Lowe, was canned after he accidentally played a version of the song “The Sun Has Got His Hat On” that contained a word offensive to blacks.